BS in Digital Forensics and Cybersecurity
The only bachelor's degree we could find carrying FEPAC accreditation under an explicitly digital-forensics label, which makes it unusual among US forensics programs.
Type: Degree & academicStudents
Offered by Eastern Kentucky University
The facts
- Cost
- Not verified. EKU's published tuition rates were not retrievable in our research pass, so we state no figure — check EKU's own tuition page before relying on any number you find elsewhere.Figure read 2026-09-12 from www.aafs.org/search/FEPAC-schools
- Prerequisites
- Standard undergraduate admission. Specific program prerequisites were not verified.
- Format
- Undergraduate degree program. Delivery mode not verified.
- Length
- A bachelor's degree, typically four years.
- Renewal
- No renewal or recertification requirement is published for this entry.
- Accreditation
- Listed on FEPAC's accredited-programs directory with full accreditation running 20 January 2021 to 1 January 2027. FEPAC — the Forensic Science Education Programs Accreditation Commission, operating under the American Academy of Forensic Sciences — accredits forensic science programs, and its scope expressly includes a natural or computer science degree with a forensic science concentration.
- Who it suits
- A student aiming at a public crime lab or a government forensic unit, where programme accreditation is part of the hiring criteria.
- Audience
- Students
- Official page
- www.aafs.org/search/FEPAC-schools
Strengths
- FEPAC accreditation is the credential crime labs recognise, and of the digital-forensics degrees we checked this was the only one carrying it under that label.
- That matters specifically for public crime-lab and agency hiring, where a FEPAC requirement is common in the physical forensic sciences.
- Programme-level accreditation is a stronger signal than institutional accreditation alone.
Limitations
- We could not verify tuition, credit hours, delivery mode or admission prerequisites, so this entry is deliberately thin. Treat it as a pointer, not a specification.
- The current FEPAC accreditation term runs to 1 January 2027, so confirm renewal before enrolling on the strength of it.
- FEPAC accreditation is recognised in forensic science hiring; it carries little weight with corporate DFIR employers, who look for GIAC and experience.
- An undergraduate degree is a four-year commitment where a certification is a matter of months.
Sources
Costs, prerequisites and exam formats in this field change often, and several providers price by region, cohort or employer agreement. Every figure on this page carries the date it was read and a link to the page it was read from. Confirm current terms with the provider before you spend anything.